Absurdity: "The machinery of human affairs churns blindly on and on, no matter what, in a manner absurd enough to send even deeply grieving people into gales of uproarious laughter."

Meatspace: "Meatspace, as it is sometimes called—the analog, temporary, fleshly arena of the world—is inextricably linked with, or more like suffused with, the passage of time. We're accustomed to think of "real life" as taking place there, though for many of us, the online world and the real one have begun increasingly to blur into one another.